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The first White Knight Chronicles game had the unfortunate fate of coming out just a month before Square Enix's behemoth, Final Fantasy XIII. This in turn caused a lot of people to hold off picking up what was a slightly above average RPG, so it seems only fitting that D3 Publisher would pack in the original game with its sequel, White Knight Chronicles 2. That's right, you're getting two slightly above average games for the price of one. Which is cool, but also unfortunate because I was hoping that Level-5 would be able to address some of the problems I had with the first game, but instead you're left with a game that provides a direct sequel to the first game, flaws and all. Despite that I had some enjoyable moments with the game. This begs the question, "Are these small gems of gameplay and story could make up for what was essentially a flawed experience from the get-go? And is the two for the price of one package is worth it?"
White Knight Chronicles 2 picks up precisely at where the first game left off, Balandor has their princess back, saved by Leonard and his ragtag group of friends. The kingdom of Faria in the middle of a civil war, and the final five chapters lie ahead, can Leonard and company save the day? With some new powers and allies they just might be able to pull it off. That is if you can get past some maddening design decisions. Basically, if you never played through the first White Knight Chronicles, then you need to take the time to play through that and build up a party that will be capable in battle, because starting from scratch in White Knight Chronicles 2 sets you up for some rather difficult times ahead with just a few basic provisions available at your disposal. Part of me understands this decision by the developer, because if you're trying to get in to this game then you need to do so from the very beginning. But on the opposite side of that argument, the game shouldn't be soul-crushingly hard for someone who might have lost their save and wanted to get in to the new game.
Those who start fresh have the option of building a new avatar character that you participate as, which is something I always liked about the White Knight Chronicles games, you feel partially invested in the story because your character is there, even if they are treated as kind of a ghost in the group, but taking your personal character online is why you create them, which I must say, there is a lot of variety to building a character, so I'd rarely run in to anyone who looked anything close to me. If you chose the route of a fresh game for White Knight Chronicles 2, then you'll find them at a middle of the road, level thirty-five, with plenty of talent points to spec out to your character. I personally opt for a character who could main as a tank with a spear and focus on defense. It's kind of a bummer though that in practice, this build felt mostly useless during the main campaign of the game, as I could not deal enough damage to maintain hate from the enemies, even with skills that are meant to draw enemy attacks to you.
Combat remains mostly unchanged from the first White Knight Chronicles game, which is pretty disappointing because I hated the 'combo' system and combat in general, because it feels like 'Press X to win' was the mantra when drafting this combat system, no timing mechanics or variety in skill times to draw my attention, just wait for the meter to fill and press X, change in to the White Knight if things are looking bad, and move on to the next group of enemies. The game got me all excited, setting up combos that would use my action chips, and plotting out what buffs and debuffs I would have available, and then it came time to play the game, and I'd just find what physical attack did the most damage and go from there. The combat online is a little bit more dynamic when there is no Incorruptus to back you up in a pinch, so if you're looking for something a little more varied, take the game online, but combat still might feel a bit one-dimensional, which is disappointing because it feels like I'm playing a new age Phantasy Star Online. Sure there are different attack types that I can employ and use to take advantage of an enemy weakness, but I never really felt like doing anything outside of physical attacks was particularly useful, except in very specific situations where I felt like I was punished for not wanting to use magic spells.
My biggest gripe from combat comes from how utterly stupid the NPC AI can be at times, and the general pre-sets don't seem to do much to help their behavior, they'd spend MP while I expect them to save it for healing, or use it in an inappropriate manner for the situation, did everyone need to have their HP refilled? No not at all, but now we're short precious MP. Other situations cropped up where self-preservation was a skill they obviously didn't teach in JRPG-101, early on in the game you're charged with escorting two characters, and they'll participate in battle, and for the most part they are helpful, but when it comes to a boss battle where they also join in, they were more responsible for me failing than my own ability to protect myself. Constantly wandering underfoot of a large enemy they'd get stomped and I'd have no way to heal them, because my other party members had already spent their MP keeping them alive. Thankfully moments like this don't pop-up often after the first chapter, but for those first few hours, they are the most frustrating part of the game, unless you come in to White Knight Chronicles 2 with a save from the previous game, then this fight is likely to be cake.
If you've got the first White Knight Chronicles game, you'll remember that it was a decent looking game, and while I hate to bring up comparisons to Phantasy Star so liberally, it looked like an update to the Dreamcast classic, which is not meant in a bad way. For the most part those visuals are retained in the second game, but now with some added screen tearing and slow down in parts of the game, which is really disappointing because while this game looks good, swinging the camera around causes some unsightly issues to occur. The environments and characters all look really good, but it seems like it's almost too much for the PS3 to handle which shouldn't be the case considering what the hardware is capable of.
I wasn't particularly moved by the soundtrack, just your typical orchestral soundtrack that I feel like I'm doing a disservice by describing it like that, but really I cannot for the life of me remember the music as a write this. There was a theme song played during the intro that failed to stir feelings of something epic to come, and the generic lyrics failed to do anything except make me mash the start button in an effort to skip the cinematic. The voice cast is carried over from the previous game and does a pretty good job, there's the occasional dry line here and there, or awkward accent that doesn't seem to fit, but the actors seemed to fit in to their grooves this time around and were probably more comfortable with their roles, resulting in a better product.
Online play is still a major part of the White Knight Chronicles experience and part two is no exception, with additional quests there is plenty to do outside of the main game and really where you'll spend a good chunk of time. It's a bit daunting to get in to the online portion of the game, especially if you're jumping in to the this game from the start of White Knight Chronicles 2, since you'll be massively outleveled by a lot of players out there, though a lot of them are happy to have other players in game and are willing to help out, so kudos to the community out there for making this game accessible to new players. It's quite a scary prospect when you look at it for the first time, and you can tell that a lot of the game is geared towards that online play and MMO style grind.
For those that want to get the most out of the main campaign, there are tons of side-quests, I mean a ridiculous number of errands and hunts to do, and thankfully the game is more than happy to help you out in tracking a lot of them down. Hunts show up automatically on the maps, and anyone who might be a quest carrier has an exclamation point over their head so they're pretty hard to miss. Then there's all the Georama and GeoNet stuff to mess around with. Getting a town together is rather tough if you start from the middle of the game, so once again, head back to the start to make things easier for yourself.
Playing White Knight Chronicles 2 without playing the first game is a probably the worst possible way to experience this game, which is why I am glad they packed in the first game with it. However it still doesn't change that this game has some flawed fundamentals in combat, making one of the key parts of an RPG a total bore to deal with. Which is quite disappointing because I like everything else about the game. I've been going back and forth with a co-worker who also picked up this game, that you can't really fault this game for continuing on with what the first game had, and that's all well and good, but if they can fit the entirety of the first game and the second game on one disc, why not just release an all-inclusive version where there is no break in the continuity of the story. This will forever remain a baffling design choice to me. White Knight Chronicles 2 doesn't really have the best of Level-5 behind it which is kind of disappointing, marred by weird design choices and AI that doesn't always act in the best interest of the player drags down what is already an average game that is only hurt by a shallow combat system. This game is a pretty good value considering that you get two games for the price of one, and with the RPG landscape being kind of dry right now this game might fill a void, but really I would only recommend this game in passing if you've really got nothing else to play. If it weren't released right before the fall glut of games, maybe I'd be more enthusiastic about it, but as it stands, White Knight Chronicles 2 is just a middle of the road title.
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Live on stage this summer at Navy Pier is Disney's Beauty and the Beast. We are big fans of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and can not wait to see the show on Sunday! While I think this "tale as old as time" is a story for boys and girls of all ages, Ivy and I are making it a girls' day out and taking my Mom, sister-in-law, and niece Abby. We're especially excited that audience members can even meet the cast in the lobby following each performance!
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I designed a web site and added 7 pictures (all together 800kb) with layer stack and blending options.
The svg file was 320kb now it' apx. 6mb ...
how to get the file smaller?
Same issue here as well. I tried creating a flash site with 3 images (10 k each), and was shocked to see the SWF size!..
Came across this thread, where this issue was already reported. (see the below thread)
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Thanks for sharing these! The development team is acutally looking for the anh files. Do you have these available to upload?
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You can scale down images to make the file sizes lighter.
Are you using the Clipping Frame (Insert > Media Objects > Clipping Frame) to add images to your file? If so, follow these steps to resize an image. If you are just working with an image in the workspace, without the clipping frames, just use steps 5 and 6 to downsample an image.
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2. Ensure the image is selected and click the Copy button.
3. Exit image editing mode by returning to the Sheet level by clicking in the document breadcrumb.
4. Paste the image into the document. It will be very big on the stage.
5. Scale down the down to a smaller size by grabbing a corner handle and scaling the image, or using Transform and adjusting the WIDTH AND HEIGHT percentages. (Conveniently, if you input 12% into the Width or Height box (while keeping the Lock Aspect Ratio option selected) the image scales down to the same size as the clipping frame you were using previously.)
6. Double-click the image again to enter into Bitmap Image mode and select Transform > Downsample to Screen.
7. Select the image and click the Copy button, then delete the image from the stage.
8. Double-click to get back into your clipping frame.
9. Select the image already in the frame, and delete it.
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11. Save the file. You should find the file size to be much smaller now.
OK, looking over that now it is quite the list of things to do to optimize images for the screen. Hopefully there will be an easier way to downsample or optimize images for screen and print in the next coming releases.
tank you for the answer, but it isn't help full, because I already take pictures in scaled to 600x400 and 23-40kb in size...
so If I add them to the clipping frame, the size is 100% and I can't scale them any more...
So we need other solution for these problem.
@green_mamut I believe that your problem may be also that Rome transcodes JPG to PNG (even though the files don't have any transparency), hence the 10x file growth
Hey, thanks for the reply. Here are my files:
When the original files are in png Rome behaves good (files are not growing), but of my images (bg.jpg) is in JPG format and is 13 kB originaly, but it's transformed to PNG in output and grows to about 70kB.
Does Rome have JPG output possibilities?
Hi green_mamut,
I just downloaded all your images which you have uploaded in this thread, and it seems to me that you just renamed the extension of some of your images as jpg (rather than converting them to jpg's using some image editors).
For example, take a look at your "799px-Volvo_Ocean_Race_2009a.jpg" image property. You can notice that the thumbnail of that image says "jpg" where as the details pane tells that the image is in png format. I tried converting this image as jpg using mspaint and the size got reduced to 39.5 KB (where its was 349 KB previously).
The same is applicable for other images like, Volvo-Ocean-Race-volvo-1023287_534_800.jpg and vor_illbruck_1200.jpg as well.
I would suggest you to convert all your pngs to jpg images using any image editor and then you can check whether it has any impact on your SWF output.
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Hello David,
I didn't did it like you wrote.
This images where only for testing.
How I'm doing it (all in photoshop):
1.I have a PSD File of my picture, this is for example 240mb because of all layers etc. and 4400x3000px in size.
2.Then I convert this to JPEG - and I save it with compression rate 12 - so no compression - the file is apx. 8mb now.
3.Now i resample the image to 600x400 and I'm using the function "save for web" - here I can select once more the compression between 100 - 0% and I choice 40% so a low quality . on the output I have an image of 50kb ...
I took the same picture that you choose and resample it on my way, on the quality that is acceptable it now 66kb
Now the same picture saved with Rome by using "export images as separate file" - the png is 618kb...
Looking forward for solution :-)
That's exactly the problem! Rome exports everything as png (even if the imported file is jpg). I have the same problem.
Ah yes, sorry, I see what you mean now GM. And yes, it does appear that Rome's conversion of images from JPEG to PNG does significantly inflate the filesize beyond a reasonable margin. For example, the 799px-Volvo_Ocean_Race_2009a.jpg startsat 189kb and ends at 1,180kb when Exporting Images as Separate Files.
Perhaps this should be logged as a bug?
@green_mamut - Sorry mate. I never knew those images were only for testing purposes.
@chodorowicz_ @jayheins - Good observation and I am sure it must be a bug.
@ daverms - it's equal if they are for testing or not... it's always the same with all of images...
Dont Forget this is Early stages of Adobe Rome ^^.
I sure they will fix it soon.
Yup!. This is kinda pre-release for ROME, and still a long way to go I believe!
Workaround for this is to convert the files to jpg and change the extension back to png. It may be not a perfect solution but it works.


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The map below, reproduced from the original title page, depicts the area covered by the Atlas des Deutschen Reichs, and shows the division of the entire area into the nine main maps and two smaller maps of the original atlas. For this online edition, each main map was further divided into four sections which may be downloaded as pdf files. To find the map showing a particular location, use the accompanying Gazetteer. More details on this process can found in the instructions at the end of this page. A brief introduction to the Atlas and its application for genealogical research can be found immediately following this map.
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Young actors from Truckee Meadows Community College are doing each of these things with their staging of the docudramas "The Laramie Project" and "The Laramie Project 10 Years Later," which began last weekend and concludes this weekend.
Both plays are based on the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man in Laramie, Wyo., which put a nationwide spotlight on hate crimes and led to many movements, organizations and legislation. It's about more than just the murder, it is about a community's reaction to a tragedy.
A month after the murder, members of Tectonic Theater Project in New York traveled to Laramie and conducted interviews with the people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the play "The Laramie Project," which they later made into a film for HBO. The words in both plays are made up entirely of actual words spoken by real people who were interviewed after the event.
"The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later" is an epilogue to the first play and addresses the long-term effects of tragedy on a community and whether or not any good has come out of it in the form of growth and acceptance.
"This play does not say 'If you're not gay-friendly, for lack of a better term, open-minded, you are an awful, terrible person because we do have people in this community who express their views that are in opposition to the empathy, sympathy of this horrific crime,' " said Paul Aberasturi, director of the play and chair of TMCC's Visual and Performing Arts Department.
"It's more about people, people of any community and the diversified views that they have and how something like this that happens fits into their lives and how they apply it to themselves," Aberasturi added.
A frightening thought came from Adam Semas, who plays the role of Russell Henderson, one of the two young men now serving life sentences for Shepard's murder.
"He could be anybody," Semas said about studying the real-life Russell. "He's an average guy who want along with Aaron (McKinney, the primary murderer), wrong place at the wrong time."
Many of the local actors, who were very young when the Shepard murder occurred, said they learned a lot by performing these plays. Stacy Johnson, a 25-year-old TMCC student who plays the role of Matthew Shepard's mother, Judy, said she was surprised at how little progress had been made in gay rights protections between the time of the murder and the 10-years-later interviews in 2008.
"Judy Shepard was also quoted as saying that there has been 10 years of progress yet no change," Johnson said. "It's amazing to me to see that things have changed at the human level, the grassroots level, but legislatively, legally, over 10 years nothing huge has changed. At that point, Don't Ask Don't Tell was still in effect and it's amazing to me to see that this horrendous hate crime had happened yet no one had jumped on the bandwagon to really put that into effect."
"It's a story from 1998 and it happened in Reno two weeks ago, a hate crime that happened in Lemmon Valley," said 24-year-old actress and TMCC student Megan Smith, referring to anti-gay slurs that were painted on a local house. "Obviously he wasn't brutally tied to a fence but the same thing is happening."
While the progression of attitudes towards gays as a whole might be a matter of debate, at least one young actress in the TMCC production saw how the performance of this play touched someone close to her.
"After the show, (my grandma) came up to me with tears in her eyes and told me that she understood more now about homosexuals and their challenges and what they have to go through," said 18-year-old Myranda Keeley. "It was really cool because typically she doesn't really agree with that kind of stuff."
This weekend's performances are as follows:
• 7 p.m. today: "The Laramie Project"
• 7 p.m. Friday: "The Laramie Project 10 Years Later"
• 3 p.m. Saturday: "The Laramie Project"
• 7 p.m. Saturday: "The Laramie Project 10 Years Later"
• 3 p.m. Sunday: "The Laramie Project"
• 7 p.m. Sunday: "The Laramie Project 10 Years Later"
Tickets are available online at www.showtix4u.com or at the door of the TMCC Redfield Performance Arts Center. located in the shopping center at Keystone Avenue and W. Fifth Street in Reno. Ticket packages are available for a discount to anyone who wants to see the original as a matinee and the epilogue later that night.


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Elizabeth Cowling To Speak On Renoir And Picasso March 30
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March 13, 2003
Elizabeth Cowling of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, will give the lecture "Picasso and Renoir: Admiration, Identification, Imitation" at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday, March 30, at 2:00 p.m. Cowling's lecture is one of a series of Sunday public programs offered in connection with the Clark's current exhibition Renoir and Algeria. Admission is free.
Cowling is senior lecture in the history of art at the University of Edinburgh. She is co-curator of the acclaimed exhibition Matisse Picasso, currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her previous exhibition Picasso: Sculptor/Painter was named the Best UK Art Exhibition of 1994 by the National Art Collections Fund. Cowling is the author of Picasso: Style and Meaning and the forthcoming Visiting Picasso, as well as numerous catalogue essays and articles in prominent art journals.
The Clark's great painting Mlle. Fleury in Algerian Costume by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is the centerpiece of Renoir and Algeria, the first exhibition devoted to the Impressionist artist's Algerian subjects. The show will feature studio paintings done in Paris as well as landscapes, portraits, and images of life in Algeria inspired by Renoir's trips in 1881 and 1882. Organized by the Clark Art Institute with guest curator Roger Benjamin, a leading scholar of French Orientalist art, the exhibition features loans from American and European museums and private collections. Renoir and Algeria will travel to the Dallas Museum of Art and the Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris.
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The galleries are open Tuesday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Gallery admission is free through May. For more information call 413-458-2303 or visit www.clarkart.edu.


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Oscar Isaac says his life changed when he was cast in the title role of "Inside Llewyn Davis." A lot of doors that had been closed to him before now swung open.
"The Coen Brothers seal of approval," as he calls it, means a lot in the film business.
And it was a bit daunting when it hit him that yes, he really was starring in their new film. "Yeah, every few minutes I think that would come into my mind — and have to leave immediately. Because if not it could be paralyzing due to the enormity of it.
"It was my first time working with two directors, so I had double the horsepower. There were two genius brains making the same movie, driving the same car. So that's just another resource which was fantastic. And the complete and utter lack of vanity or neurosis, I think all of that was refreshing. The fact that they never compliment, or at least they're not given to a lot of hyperbole about how great a job someone is doing. It's all about the work, and what's great about that is that it takes away that variable, that need for approval."
Oscar Isaac joins Steve Edwards and Araksya Karapeteyan on Good Day L.A.
Fun facts about Oscar Isaac (Source: Wikipedia)
1.) Isaac was born in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, Maria, and a Cuban pulmonologist father, Oscar Gonzalo Hernández. He was raised in Miami, Florida. While in Miami, he played lead guitar and sang vocals for his band "The Blinking Underdogs". He has described his evangelical Protestant upbringing as "very Christian".
2.) In 2005, Isaac graduated from the Juilliard School in New York City, where he was part of the Drama Division's Group 34 (2001–2005).
3.) Isaac's first major film role was as Joseph opposite Keisha Castle-Hughes in the film The Nativity Story. He also had a small role in All About the Benjamins and in Guerrilla, Part Two of the Che Guevara biopic Che.
4.) Isaac was awarded the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actor of 2009, for his role as José Ramos-Horta in Balibo (2009).
5.) Isaac played Prince John in the 2010 film Robin Hood. Later that year, he portrayed a security guard in the film W.E., which was directed by Madonna and released in September 2011. In the same month, Isaac starred in the crime drama Drive. He also had a role in 10 Years, in which he played a musician. He performed his own song "Never Had" in the film. "Never Had" and "You Ain't Goin Nowhere" were included in the movie's soundtrack.
6.) He has made an appearance in the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. He appeared as Romeo in the Public Theater's "Shakespeare in the Park" performances of Romeo and Juliet and Two Gentlemen of Verona.In 2013, Isaac starred in the film Inside Llewyn Davis, written and directed by the Coen Brothers. Isaac played a folk singer in a drama set in Greenwich Village in 1960, and sang all his own numbers. The film won the Grand Prix at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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Make No Mistake: Obama's Favorite Buzzwords
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'Make no mistake,' Obama is a big fan of his own catchphrases
Statistics gathered by the Global Language Monitor reveal that Obama has said it 2,924 times since he was sworn into office more than two years ago.
Other signature Obama sayings include "Here's the deal" (1,450 times) and "Let me be clear," (1,066 times). In a nod to the tough financial times he has faced, the president's fifth most popular motto is "It will not be easy."
Obama's reheated rhetoric has recently come under fresh scrutiny. Parts of his speech warning Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to honor the United Nations' cease-fire pact were strikingly similar to the words spoken by President George W. Bush when he launched military strikes in Afghanistan.
"Our goal is focused. Our cause is just. And our coalition is strong," Obama said. Bush, nearly a decade earlier: "Your mission is defined. Your objectives are clear. Your goal is just."
Make no mistake, The Daily is hoping Obama lifts his creative game and "wins the future" (another rhetorical crutch) when it comes to this public speaking deal. Although we understand it will not be easy.
Scale of Top Sayings (Source: The Global Language Monitor, as of March 25)
#1 "Make no mistake" — 2,924 times
#2 "Win the future" — 1,861 times; 9 times in his 2011 State of the Union address
#3 "Here's the deal" — 1,450 times
$4 "Let me be clear" — 1,066 times
#5 "It will not be easy" — 1,059 times
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Jets trash Sydney in five-star show
Newcastle Jets dealt a blow to Sydney FC's finals ambitions with a 5-2 victory at the SFS.
Nikolai Topor-Stanley scored the Jets' opening goal after 22 minutes and Ruben Zadkovich rubbed further salt into Sydney's wound with a wonderful strike seven minutes later.
New Zealand international Jeremy Brockie added a third on 38 minutes before Sydney threatened a fightback.
Second-half goals from Hirofumi Moriyasu and Michael Beauchamp - the defender's first senior goal in an Australian league - got it back to 3-2 before Brockie put the result to bed with his second in the 87th minute and Ali Abbas completed the rout in injury time.
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